IDEA INSTITUTE INC.

Keizo Kiyohara

June 1973

¥80 million

Sales

(FY 2012 ended Dec. 31, 2012)
¥1.1 billion

Address

Idea Bldg., 3-1-3 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013
Japan

Telephone no.

+81-3-3446-8660

Fax no.

+81-3-3446-3134

Number of employees

90

1973

Idea Institute founded with the principal
objective of providing global communication services
in multiple languages. Immediately receives orders
from Japan's largest export-oriented companies
for catalog, advertisement, and manual translation
work for overseas markets. Services available
in 20 languages.

1975

Begins offering design and layout work plus
printing services. Orders pour in from government-affiliated
companies. Continues to broaden the scope of
operations.

1979

Becomes one of the first companies in the
Japanese translation industry to acquire U.S.-made
computerized typesetting equipment for Western
languages, causing productivity to soar.

1984

Enters the technical writing field.

1985

Introduces a U.S.-made electronic editing
system, which leads to a marked increase in desktop
publishing productivity.

1986

Capital increased to ¥38.4 million.

1988

Government and government-affiliated corporation
orders increase. Acquires a wider range of desktop
publication programs. Computer inventory vastly
expanded in order to construct more efficient
intra-office systems.

1996

Acquires translation support software, leading
to another major surge in translation and desktop
publishing productivity.

1998

Offers Web site design services.

1999

Offers localization services for online help
and software.

2003

Idea moves into its own building in Ebisu,
Tokyo.

2004

Capital increased to ¥80 million.
Support available in over 50 languages.